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LENIN COLLECTION

ON MEASURES FOR ENSURING THE WESTERN FRONT 
WITH MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

To approve the resolution proposed by the People's Commissariat of Health.
To propose to the Commissariat of Health Care to take measures to eliminate in the shortest possible time the shortage of medical personnel on the Western Front and to monitor the urgent implementation of this resolution.
To instruct the People's Commissariat of Health to take special preventive measures against cholera on the Western Front.
To instruct the People's Commissariat of Health to put in order in the shortest possible time the bathhouses and to establish laundries on the Western Front.
To instruct the Revolutionary Military Soviet of the Republic to direct the Central Board of Military Communications to the necessity of urgently dispatching a laundry unit from the VI Army to the Western Front.
To instruct Comprod to supply the hospitals of the Western Front with dietary provisions.

ON MEASURES FOR SUPPLYING PROVISIONS TO THE WESTERN FRONT

To instruct Comprod to maintain continuously the supply of the Western Front at the level of a monthly reserve.
To oblige Comprod to submit to the next session of the Council of Labor and Defense a report on the measures taken in this area, in particular on the dispatch of fats and on the delivery of hay from Gzhatsk District to the Western Front.
The question of the Western Front's repair of the route for dispatching for meat procurement is to be transferred for agreement between the People's Commissariat of Railways and the Chief Supply Administration for Food Products. If agreement is reached—to submit to the Council of People's Commissars.

Chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed according to protocol No. 116 of the plenary session of the Council of Labor and Defense, 30 April 1920*

1920

DIRECTIVES OF V. I. LENIN AND I. V. STALIN 
ON THE CAUCASUS

5030

NOTE BY DIRECT WIRE TO G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Via Rostov-on-Don to Baku*

3 May 1920

We urgently request you once again, losing not a single minute, to inform us of the reasons for your telegram regarding the delay.

Lenin. Stalin

40226

TELEGRAM TO MEMBER OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY SOVIET 
OF THE CAUCASUS FRONT G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE

Baku via Rostov

5 May 1920

Deliver through responsible persons; upon delivery report to the Revolutionary Military Soviet of the Republic, Sklyansky.

The Central Committee obliges you to withdraw troops from the borders of Georgia to the frontier and to refrain from an offensive against Georgia.
After negotiations with Tiflis, it is clear that peace with Georgia is not excluded.

* Printed from a typewritten copy. At the top of the telegram there is a note: "Most urgent (under the responsibility of the duty telegraph commissioners) via Rostov to Baku, to the location of Comrade Ordzhonikidze."